When a Baltimore fire lieutenant fell through the floor of an abandoned rowhouse in 2014 and died of smoke inhalation, a federal occupational safety agency recommended the fire department physically mark vacant properties deemed dangerous to help prevent another tragedy. The city previously had a program to tag unstable buildings with placards that displayed a...Read More
Four firefighters and two civilians are recovering from injuries after a Detroit Fire Department engine collided with an SUV last week. Engine 50 was on its way to respond to a fire on Riad Street at around 8 a.m. June 8 when it collided with a passenger vehicle at Houston Whittier and Dickerson, said James Harris, chief of...Read More
On 6/16/1875 a Boston, Massachusetts firefighter died at a fireworks factory fire. “An explosion of gunpowder occurred at Charles E. Masten’s fireworks factory on Kemble Street, Roxbury. Box 213, (Norfolk Avenue & Hamden Street) was sounded at 2:58 p.m. Five civilians were also killed and ten severely injured. Several of the dead were teenagers. The...Read More
